Panbiogeography: The New World

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Page 120Biogeography is not the handmaid of classification, but a science in its own right
which, using the records of distribution for its own purposes, according to its own
principles and methods, does not become ipso facto supine under the foot of ...

Page 211Placing the scores of the Insectivora before us — and prior to analyzing them in
all their aspects — let us stop to inquire whether the student who has of the records of life, in general, at least a modicum of understanding does recognize in
the ...

Page 219Thus ending the argument, we might nevertheless add to our records a curiosum,
always better to document how strictly psychological factors are, after all, the core
of "zoogeography". De Beaufort believes, the like we heard [3], that certain ...